Home Theatre PC Guide

Greg Ridder writes "For those of you who are interested in possibly putting together a Home Theatre or Media PC, I stumbled upon an excellent guide. It discusses basic hardware requirements, four software choices (BeyondTV, SageTV, MCE2005 and MythTV), controlling your cable or satellite set-top box and much more. Based on the research that I've done in the past, this is the most comprehensive guide that I've seen to date."

melrose place?

[Anonymous Coward]

You're late to go out for the evening and just as you're about to run out the door you remember that Melrose Place is going to be on that night and you just can't miss it.

Did anybody else read this waiting for the punchline???

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s l o w

[jargoone]

Looks like 2cpu.com could use another 2 CPUs...

Re:Howto build Media PC

[er_head66]

3. ????
4. Profit

Re:What about...

[hamburger lady]

i'll bet they could cook popcorn on their server right now...

most frustrating project ever

[Fox_1]

Thanks for reading today. I know it was quite a commitment to make it through these 21 pages, but I hope it was of some value to you.

It's either actually doing this myself on a budget - and it was painful - I never seem to buy stable powersupplies, or supported hardware, and blood is surprisingly conductive.

or making it through the reading of the article

Too bad they forgot commercial skip on the server

[jmcwork]

I went to the site and up came an 'read this ad/you will be redirected' page appeared. I have no real problem with this so I waited for the next page to load, and: the ad again. Well, the article finally appeared and I read the first page, clicked 'next page' and: same ad (Vonage, I think). That was enough for me. (This never happened with archie, gopher, and ftp!)

Re:melrose place?

[trailerparkcassanova]

Give the guy a break. He is, after all, Canadian.

closed captioning for the google-impaired

[mapmaker]

flame

For those of you who are interested in possibly putting together a Home Theatre or Media PC but don't know how to use a search engine, I stumbled upon an excellent guide.

/flame

Re:Howto build Media PC

[ad0gg]

Listen PAL, these jokes are getting old.

free as in speech, cheap as in beer

[fred fleenblat]

Not to be a downer, but replay and tivo services are actually not that expensive. I have the grandfathered-in $9.95/mo service from replay and that is my lowest monthly expense. Honestly, I spend more on cola.

What I want is a $300 PC that will replace my mortgage, property taxes, and/or car insurance.

Re:Next up on Punch-line...Idle Worship.

[slackerboy]

"Idle Worship"?

Well, I guess I do tend to just sit in front of the TV not doing anything worthwhile...

Oh, wait! You meant "Idol Worship"! Nevermind.

Re:Am I the only one?

[Moofie]

Cool. Send me one of those computers, and I'll try to get you a date.

I kid, I kid!